Posted on 09/09/2013 10:18:56 PM PDT by george76
They have just supplied ammo for ads for their opponents. Jeb praising Hillary will be priceless as an ad and Rubio’s already toast.
Bump
I think there would be a good chance for the guy [I refuse to use 'conservative' because you may validly take that to mean he supports the unnacceptable status quo] to be viewed favorably if he presented the idea as anti-corruption — if you go with an anti-corruption campaign you can frame massive cuts to government in your working against corruption; moreover, you could use that to eliminate and prosecute entire agencies: the NSA for ignoring the 4th (and arguably the 1st, 5th, and 6th), the IRS for its political targeting, the ATF/FBI/DEA for the Treason that is commonly called Fast and Furious, and the ATF [again] for its SOP being an infringement of the 2nd Amendment.
Yes, gutting those agencies would make a lot of [political] enemies, but it would also show that you are seriously working against corruption.
My personal opinion is that we are screwed. We can take the screwing now and it will hurt or we can take a bigger screwing in the future (most likely since our leaders punt everything). Does not change the fact that we are screwed. I don’t think there is any magic candidate with impeccable conservative credentials that can fix us because the majority of our nation does not want to be fixed.
If you don’t believe that statement you have much more faith in the American populace than I do. What say you?
I'm inclined to agree; look at the immigration problem: it's been bad for a decade, but [IIUC] after Regan's amnesty there was a golden opportunity to (a) crack down on the border-security, and (b) reform the immigration bureaucracy [which really does need reformation].
I can see no downside: the GOP is worse than useless — it has never in my political lifetime been interested in pursuing its stated platform planks. They are worse than the Democrats, who at least pursue what they say they will; the obvious scorn the Democrats have for bible-believing gun-clingers
is present-but-hidden in the Republican party: they use codewords like 'bible', 'guns', 'freedom' and so forth to get votes and don't care beyond that. (Nothing else explains things like adding "for any reason, no exceptions" to the anti-abortion plank even as they push Mr. Of-course-I-support-abortions-in-insest-rape-and-the-mother's-health Romney [Mother's health
is politician-speak for 'unrestricted abortion'])
Addendum regarding the above:
No, they do not identify with us, they identify foremost with their fellow elites — if they did identify with us they would not put mere shows regarding the NSA, IRS, Fast and Furious, and other outrages but instead vigorously pursue these injustices. As they do not pursue these to anny effect we must conclude that their allegiance is to their fellow-elites.
The lovefest between Bill Clinton and George Bush the elder should have clued most people in to the way things really were, harking back to their good old days working together at the Mena Airport.
Many of Obama's worst policies, from amnesty for illegal immigrants to the financial stimulus to his foreign policy is just a logical extrapolation of what got started under Bush. In turn, many of Bush's worst policy initiatives were just an extrapolation of the Clinton years. One hand has been washing the other for decades.
A move up spot, no doubt. I’ve met him because he tried to sell me on some sort of fund he was propped up to represent.
If I was a Texas resident still, I’d vote against him on principle.
Barbara Bush recently said she thought that Jeb should not run for president. She was right. Hillary is filled with herself. As Secretary of State, a job for which she was qualified, she just chanelled the Muslim Brotherhood and Muslim Sisterhood. So much so, she orchestrated the ouster of Mubarek and the installation of Morsi, Mr. Muslim Brotherhood. For this one should go to jail, not get a prize.
TYPO in the last posting: That should have read: “ a job for which she was NOT qualified,”
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